The former president of the Government Mariano Rajoy has presumed this Friday during the inauguration of the XXI National Congress of the Popular Party of the fight “against corruption” that, he said, he carried out during his nearly seven years of mandate. A mandate that ended earlier than expected after a motion of censure caused by the first of three judicial sentences that condemned the PP precisely for corruption with himself as head of the rows.
Rajoy has followed the planned script and has taken advantage of his intervention to lash out at the coalition government chaired by Pedro Sánchez. “The political situation in Spain today is bad, very bad,” he said, with his usual discursive ease. “Everyone knows, even those who have brought us here. Especially those who have brought us here. There is nothing more to see their face that look lately,” he has ironized about the physical appearance of the president.
“What we have known in recent days is only the lace of a legislature that should never have started,” said a rajo who has said that “never” had been seen in Spain “to an outstanding socialist militant wrapped up by the secretary of organization of his party, creating an interest union with characters of doubtful condition to organize discredit campaigns against judges, prosecutors and civil guards.” “I had not seen it at least,” he added. “This is incredible. It is amazing. It is amazing. They are not known for something like that or similar,” he has settled.
According to the National Court, the Government of Rajoy organized a Parapolical Group under the orders of its Interior Minister, Jorge Fernández, who manufactured false evidence against political rivals, as leaders of Podemos or Catalan independence. In addition, according to the judicial instruction, the Parapolicial Group tried to destroy the evidence of the historical corruption of the PP known as 'Gürtel case' that kept the one who was treasurer of the formation, Luis Bárcenas.
These operations have already been judged by the Supreme Court. Francisco Martínez, the 'number two' of Interior with Rajoy, expects trial for spying on Bárcenas and has been arrested again in the framework of the investigations against the Alcasec computer pirate. Former Minister Jorge Fernández faces a penalty of up to 15 years in prison.
In his opinion, the amnesty that the PSOE agreed for Sánchez's investiture in 2023 is the origin of all later evils, although the supposed plot of corruption led by Santos Cerdán began operating with him in the government, in the mid -last decade.
“That has been the great corruption,” he said about amnesty, to warn: “I am not going to talk too much about this issue of corruption. You do not deserve it.” But Rajoy has yet added two more phrases on the subject to clean his own past.
The former president has talked about the motion of censure he lost. “Back in 2018, I went to whom everyone knows (in reference to Sánchez) and said: 'To give lessons you have to be very sure. If not, it is best to shut up. They are not and were not to give lessons.”
“That motion was the first act of Frankestein and all the institutional and moral deterioration that we see now. It was tried to mask with a sentence what was smoothly and plainly the history of an ambition without limits,” he said. “You had to get out. Just as today you have to stay as it is,” he added.
Rajoy has completed his discursive thread with a closed defense of his management. “When we had problems, we got together and what we did was harden the laws to improve the fight against crime. Now that there is a black hole, the laws against judicial independence have tightened,” he said. “That is the difference, some of us act against corruption and others against the judges, against prosecutors and the Civil Guard,” he said, to settle: “That is the big difference.”
Rajoy has also presumed that during his term “the trains worked and arrived in time.” Today, he added, “a train trip is a raffle, you can stay in the middle of the road.” In 2013, during Rajoy's first government there was Angrois accident, when an Alvia derailed when she was about to arrive in Santiago de Compostela. 80 people died.
This has been expressed Rajoy during the opening day of the XXI National Congress of the PP that will re -elected as a leader without any internal opposition to Alberto Núñez Feijóo. The former president has assured that today, “the only thing that is insured is that no one is going to worry about you” in case of a railway delay or a problem in the service. “No one is going to give you an explanation, nobody is going to give you a solution. And of course, nobody is going to apologize,” he added.
The victims of the Alvia accident have denounced for more than a decade the absolute abandonment of the public administration and denounced that “there was a government hunt for the machinist.” The trial issued two and a half years in jail for the machinist and the former security chief of Adif. The defense of the machinist has resorted.
“The Popular Party is not only the first political force in Spain, because citizens say every time they have the opportunity to vote. We are also one of the strongest references in the right center in Europe,” he said. “We have a great story of which we are proud. Above all we have a brilliant present and a hopeful future,” he said.
Rajoy has also assured that he supports Feijóo in Congress, a conclave for which the PP leader has no rival. No one has raised important amendments to the presentations.
